Saturday, August 11, 2007

Letter Lessons

This week my daughter and I started something new with the littlest member of our family, Letter Lessons. She and I are going to start introducing him to a new letter each week. We chose to start with the letter L as it is the first letter of his name

My daughter is 10 and had such a great time looking online for activities (she's already come up with ideas for next week). My original plan was to use activities from when I was teaching, but I could tell she really wanted to do the planning!!! What a great learning experience for her as well.

Keep in mind my son is 2, so we kept it simple, and our only expectation was that he would be introduced to the letter and have fun at the same time!!!

with white cotton balls, my daughter drew hooves and a face on the fingers)

Sing Mary Had A Little Lamb

Activity 3: Leo The Lion

( Of course we sang Leo The Lion. We then found a small pater plate, used a glue

stick to cover the outside edge with glue. My son then helped to place the paper

strips around for the main, and glued on the eyes and nose.)

Activity 4: Lips starts with L

( I drew an L Shape onto a piece of paper, put lipstick on my son and let him kiss the paper leaving his "lip print".)

Activity 5: Lamb, Leaf, and L cookies

Rolled Sugar Cookies

(from The Southern Living Cookbook)

3 C flour

2 t baking powder

3/4 t baking soda

1 C shortening (I used butter(

1 egg, beaten

1 1/4 C sugar

2 T milk

1 t vanilla

Combine flour, baking powder, and soda, cut in shortening (or butter) with a pastry blender until it resembles course meal. Combine egg, sugar, milk, and vanilla. Stir until well blended pour into the the dry mixture. Stir with fork until well blended. pat dough into ball and chill 2 hours (we usually can't wait that long). Role dough 1/8 in thick and cut with cookie cutter.

That is so great! He'll have his letters down in no time with all that hands on activity! Good for you. L is a great letter to start with. My kid's Kindergarten curriculum started with S - one of the hardest letters for a child to write. After that week, I skipped ahead to L. :o)

These are such great ideas! i honestly can't remember how I taught my son his letters. I wish I knew now that my daughter is almost two. I think I'll try some of these ideas with her. Now to just get my son to quit mixing up his H's and N's and quit thinking a Y is an I. :0)